Pirates of Silicon Valley

Factual error: At the start of the film Woz is starting to build an Apple 1 computer. Onscreen caption dates it at 1971. He is wearing an LCD digital watch - this would be far too early.

stevebasset

Factual error: After Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Paul Allen leave IBM and are arguing in the car, outside cars from the 90s, including an SUV from 1998, can be seen in the background, despite it being 1980.

roosterbottle

Factual error: The film shows Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and other Microsoft executives meeting with IBM and convincing them to use their new operating system, MS-DOS, despite it having not yet materialized, to which end Bill and the others then go to Seattle Computer Products to acquire their 86-DOS system. In reality, IBM had approached Microsoft for an operating system. At the time, Microsoft was using the CP/M operating system developed by Digital Research, and thus recommended IBM to them. However, negotiations fell through, and IBM tasked Microsoft to find another OS for their use. To this end, Gates approached Seattle Computer Products, and purchased their 86-DOS system.

jayo

Factual error: At the start of the film Woz is starting to build an Apple 1 computer. Onscreen caption dates it at 1971. He is wearing an LCD digital watch - this would be far too early.

stevebasset

More mistakes in Pirates of Silicon Valley

Bill Gates: Think they're hookers?
Paul Allen: Either that or motel inspectors. I saw one of them go into the room next to ours about a dozen times yesterday.

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